What was the point of Nen when people already had superpowers to begin with?
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god the new anime looks so aids
It was made with 150 continuous weeks of episodes in mind. The quality to quantity ratio is unmatched by literally any other show in the industry that came before or after. Sure, the imagery doesn't reach the same heights as the '99 version, but it's never ugly and the animation is consistently good and often great.
it's too bright and shiny
completely conflicts with the atmosphere of the series, almost every artistic choice makes it feel like just another anime instead of the more unique look of the original
killua in particular is too cute for his own good, whenever he enters his "kill mode" it's laughable because he looks like an angry kitten
to be fair it's not a bad adaptation all in all, but considering the script is pretty much already there, the presentation of an anime is going to be one of its main selling points and in this regard the 2011 anime was a failure to me
maybe i'm being too harsh, it's definitely an enjoyable experience (better than the vast majority of anime for sure), but i can't help but being frustrated because it was a regression in so many ways
then again, i hate anime in general, so maybe that's why i disliked the changes
I think it’s fine. HxH wasn’t that dark until York shin. It was basically a jrpg with haha some people die. They did make it look a bit grittier when they reach the CA arc
>new
it came out over ten years ago
>was on television, 2 long running series, and had a film on theaters
now what?
What was the point of learning nen if Gon loses it at stops being the main character?
Gon stopped being the main character at Yorknew already
He shouldn’t have lost his ability to use nen.
I feel like the show peaked at Yorknew but Greed Island was fun. Personally I think the show was pretty damn consistent in having a higher quality all the way until the Chimera Ants. And it’s not because of the arc itself (was actually setting up to be the best one yet), it’s the length. The night of the final battle was like 20 episodes on its own, not including the whole arc itself. That arc being way too long was by biggest complaint
slightly messy retcon, but kinda cool the way it all worked so that outweighs it.
the author wanted to show measurable comparisons, limits to abilities, tangible progress in training, etc, so that facilitated it.
the rest of the series is pretty much defined by it, so not like a pointless digression.
must suck being a fan who really wants to learn about the dark continent or whatever, thats what they think about right?
I don’t give a frick about the dark continent, the princes, or the Phantom Troupe’s backstory. I want more Gon and Killua.
gon was always the weakest aspect of the series
worst opinion of the year
Nta, but making him have a really dark side was the only way to balance him because he was inhumanely optimistic.
Yorkshin is the best part because it doesn't revolve around Gon
Worst parts? Gon-centric ones (Heaven's Arena, Greed Island)
Desu.
>Muh father
>i will sacrifice myself for this guy i met 3 days ago
Gon met him at Whale Island tree years prior to HxH exam, Kite is integral to his desire to meet his father, and in a way, Gon projects that paternal bond onto him.
It’s true though, Gon is very unstable and the show acknowledges this. He isn’t mature at all, and one shouldn’t expect him to be. It’s funny that many other works have children thinking like adults and meditating on the good and bad of morality, whereas HxH has Gon be just a small kid who is swimming in much deeper waters than he should be. He pays the price for that.
It sure gets convoluted the further you go, and when characters get these “eureka” moments, it makes you wonder if you missed some connection.
It’s interesting though, and is a rather unique setting, one wouldn’t expect a limbo trip to the actual meat and potatoes to be the main arc
I want gon and killua reuniting, kurapika continuing his mission, and ever more phantom troupe shenanigans.
I like Kurapika and the Phantom Troupe, but I don’t give a shit about why they became bad guys, their tragic backstory, etc.
me neither, I just want them doing shit. All the intrigue and fights and fiascos. Fricking things up for other factions and being pursued by Kurapika and the ongoing struggle with Hisoka.
oh... you're one of "those" people. fujos love shipping
Not at all. I just think they’re neat. Ideally, Gon, Killua, Leorio, and Kurapika having adventures would be peak comfy.
Just saw this for the first time last year and I didn’t realize how good it was going to be (for a shonen).
I’m kinda a basic b***h when it comes to anime but am I correct in assuming this spawned a lot of tropes I’ve seen in anime that came after? I know it’s older from the 90s. Like I can’t help but feel like the hunter exams inspired the exams in Naruto and the part with Kite fighting off Pitou to save gon and killua inspired rengoku saving tanjiro and co in demon slayer?
Is that right or are those tropes just been in anime forever?
Dark continent seems kino af if they ever went into detail. But I’m confused I thought it was implied ging already went there before he spoke to Gon for the first time
Naruto and many other shows were directly influenced by hxh, it’s definitely a genre definer.
Naruto straight up ripped off HxH
Starts with an exam with several phases that grants you a promotion in the bussiness? Check
Group of a dozen of edgy baddies? Check
Guy whose eyes turn red when he gets angry seeking revenge for the massacre of its people? Check
You're totally right. Togashi created modern shonen just like Rumiko Takahashi created modern anime comedy.
We'll never get off the boat
Is this literally stuck on a boat while the author is having an indefinite panic attack like with berserk? Wtf?
>we'll finally get off the boat
>Togashi dies a few chapters later
I really hope we don't have another Berserk outcome...
>while the author is having an indefinite panic attack like with berserk
No he was just busy playing idolmaster.
I actually like the current arc but there's no point thinking about it when togashi averages 2 chapters a year the last 5 years
The random phantom troupe backstory was moronic though
I'm a fan and my thoughts revolve around Prince Benjamin winning the succession, spiders dying, kurapika somehow surviving and tserriednicht being an entertaining psycho.
meruem won
Only by Trudeau logic.
>this song starts playing
>guaranteed kino incoming
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For me it’s
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I love how pumped that gets me, but hxh does that looming dread with exposition transitions so well. like holy frick.
It seems like the peak of non nen using humans are people like gon, killua, and hanzo who have super strength and can ninja jump and modify their body to some extent in the case of killua. Nen was just the window to characters using crazier powers.
A lot of anime is just formulaic, and then there are others that are plain schizo. HxH succeeds in being a normal anime most of the time, but there are just some of the weirdest story beats every so often, like Gon telling Killua that he, Gon, fricks b***hes or him, Gon again, saying homie out of no where.
why does that supposed heart look like a pair of testies
>I have this very autistic and well thought out power system which checks and balances
>AND THEN I'M GONNA ADD A CATEGORY THAT BTFOS ALL THE OTHER CATEGORIES!!!
HXH is shit
Specialist seem to all basically be some variant of "borrowing" other abilities. Except Pitou
not all, Paku reads memories, the mafia girl makes a prediciton of the future, 4th prince sees 10 seconds ahead
Not really, as the other anon mentioned several specialists would get btfo in combat. It's just that several notable specialists happen to be insanely gifted when it comes to fighting.
How did Togashi manage to frick up his back so badly?
He did crunches while drawing as exercise. Over the years it actually fricked up his lower back. Not kidding.
Bullshit, plenty of athletes do crunches and they're fine.
Maxxing one bodyweight exercise when the rest of your body is made of marshmallow is not the same as an athlete doing some crunches.
>your body is made of marshmallow
His wife is even more successful than he is, he just doesn't want to work.
I don’t want to believe that he’s a malingerer.
Do you also not want to believe that the last chapter was in 2022?
God damn
Admittedly it was only a bit more than a year ago, it was december 2022 according to the wiki.
The staggered release of new chapters makes me realize how quickly time goes by. The expedition arc started in 2012.
I know he works at a glacial pace, but I want to believe his back problems are legit and that he’s not just pulling a Miura.
You want to believe he isn't going to die soon?
I don’t know if he’s going to die soon, but I know he’ll die before HxH is finished.
She should finish Hunter x Hunter for him.
His wife isn't lol
>Spouse Naoko Takeuchi (m. 1999)
>Naoko Takeuchi (Japanese: 武内 直子, Hepburn: Takeuchi Naoko, born March 15, 1967) is a Japanese manga artist. She is best known as the author of Sailor Moon, one of the most popular manga series of all time.
Yes and Yuyu Hakusho is one of the most popular manga series of all time and HxH is also one of the most popular manga series of all time.
No one (except trannies) cared about Sailor Moon after 2000 when Togashi's mangas are still loved.
Who fricking read Sailor Moon manga? Wow
>Who fricking read Sailor Moon manga?
Girls. She crushed the female demographic. It also has a far more successful life outside of the manga-space.
Bro... It's Sailor Moon... As popular as Togashi's other works are, it doesn't compare to a franchise as big as that
I find it interesting that so many people liked the ant arc. Having watched entry level shit as a teenager like Naruto, Bleach etc I really hated the character/power bloat, power levelling to win fights and shit like that. Fights that were 30 second zoom ins on someones face whilst they internal monologue about what move they need to do next etc.
My friends convinced me HxH wasn't like that, so I watched it and it was amazing. Fights were fast and interesting, story moved at a good pace, not too cliche, a small cast of characters, well written enough that you can just abandon the MC for a whole arc and it's fine
Then the Chimera ant arc happens, and whilst the Meruem story is interesting, the constant fricking fights that dragged on for so many episodes. A million different named ants with their own powers, the crawwwwwling pace made it feel like just another shonen again
Original series was better
*circus music starts playing*
I think Yuyu Hakusho had a shitty rushed ending.
You are right but the show is still good
Yu Yu Hakusho ended after chapter black.
Togashi just gave up after Chimera Ant Arc and knows he's forever mogged by Araki anyway
Went to shit after part 3. Part 3 was the last good part.
4 is great lighthearted stuff
5 is fantastic aside from the protagonist
6 does indeed suck
7 is fantastic
8 is surreal in a really cool way
only brainlets think the series peaked with muh ora ora clint eastwood man
8 is honestly hard to read because after a while you start to realise everything you’re reading isn’t people pretending to be moronic with secret motives but everyone is honesty mentally moronic
It only got good after part 3, you're fricking moronic
This moron exposed himself with part 8, no one will ever argue in favor of this hack against Araki forgets memes after part 8.
Covid excuse, it was Covid that ruined it.
and i believe him.
i tried to watch this, when does it starts being good?
as soon as hisoka shows up
hunter exam was easily the best part
greed island was completely forgettable aside from razor
york new fricking sucked and was gon and killua just being traded around as hostages for 15 episodes
and holy FRICK the chimera ant arc sucked, why the frick was palm even in there. i swear i remember like 20 episodes of morel and youpi talking at each other in a fricking crater and youpi leaves them alive like 4 times because of muh honor that shit was so bad god DAMN
Didn't think it was possible to have such shit taste
>and holy FRICK the chimera ant arc sucked
Its a great example on how to frick up your battle-shonen by writing the enemies up to be too powerful.
Jujutsu Kaisen did the same in season 2 having the heroes struggle and die against what should be jobbers while there are a whole bunch of bad guys noone can even scratch anymore while making it look believable.
you think the author had anything planned out when he started this? There has never been a series that does so many sharp turns into completely different territory like this one and its obviously due to not having any idea where its supposed to be going.
mangakas plan at most like 3 chapters ahead
Depends on who it is and how much planning you consider planning.
i still don't understand nen. maybe i'm just too low iq for hunter x hunter
trust me dude thats normal, the current arc is so fricking complicated and there are so many characters and plotlines and things happening at the same time that you have to be 200 iq to remember all that shit
Nen is just Ki or Chakra
I don't want any more Gon and killua
I want dark continent
What I want the most is how existence of nen affects things like governance, warfare or just normal slice of life. With as little of Mary sue characters like protagonists or phantom troupe as possible.
Now that the dust has settled can we all agree that the Succession Arc was a mistake?
The only mistake is that he spends 100 days planning for every 1 drawing. Of course the opposite happens in other shounen
for me, the draw of hxh was always this world intro: https://youtu.be/7zOI5o7tabA?t=91
so once the dark continent got introduced and the story took a more macro perspective, it became what i wanted it to be. no holds barred worldbuilding, plotweaving.
though, unmitigated cacophony is an acquired taste, and that's pretty much the theme of succession contest. i can understand why people dislike it and don't argue against them, but i happen to love it.
i think it can win people over. for as quickly as these characters and factions get introduced, so will they be eliminated. firework clusterfrick of one-off scenarios and character moments, then the dark continent with a totally different tone and approach. vast majority won't make it off the boat alive.
>33
just saiyan
Princes, kakins king, zodiacs, nen beasts, kurapika, bodyguards, kakins army, mafia heads, mafia right hand men, mafia mooks, mafia points system, autograph hunters, tzes friends, spiders, hisoka, amazon delivery drones
Honestly unless we get offscreen spider deaths then I don’t see how he can wrap up this arc
The whole thing was a dream
Hxh is a trash manga and anime
What was the point of Haki when people already had superpowers to begin with?
Logia is overpowered without Armament Haki.
>ripped off his ballsack
I said about 1 month ago I quit when the ant arc started and now I'm watching again. I'm at greed island vs the game master and it's preddy gud still. hope I don't get filtered by the boring ants again
The ant arc is genuinely the only time I've had to watch something on 2x speed and I watched the entirety of Endless Eight. I genuinely think anyone who praises it is a moron trying to sound smart.
I really don't get it. If the dude wanted things to just be Killua x Gon. He could have made a DB-esque story of them going around the world, discovering cool creatures and places, helping people out a long the way to finding his dad. He could have done that after GI. But no, he just had to fixate this story on this piece of land where a world ending threat was happening. That arc shouldn't have been more than 20-25 episodes. I still haven't picked the show back up after dropping it. As a childhood fan of YHH, its just sad to see.
when is he going to finish yu yu hakusho
The only boring part was the dog girl and election story.
She was cute tho, would pet
I feel like Togashi just needs to transition this into a light novel series before he goes the way of Miura.
I wonder whether publishers can now impose an annual medical check-up in their contracts to avoid the Miura case
>Dark Continent literally never
It hurts, bros. Other shows haven't scratched that itch either
haha!
haha go back to xitter you boring shitskin
why you have to be mad
why you have to be brown, moronic, unfunny, and brown?
I asked first
i told you to frick off first
tell me how you really feel bro
I find it interesting that so many people liked the ant arc. Having watched entry level shit as a teenager like Naruto, Bleach etc I really hated the character/power bloat, power levelling to win fights and shit like that. Fights that were 30 second zoom ins on someones face whilst they internal monologue about what move they need to do next etc.
My friends convinced me HxH wasn't like that, so I watched it and it was amazing. Fights were fast and interesting, story moved at a good pace, not too cliche, a small cast of characters, well written enough that you can just abandon the MC for a whole arc and it's fine
Then the Chimera ant arc happens, and whilst the Meruem story is interesting, the constant fricking fights that dragged on for so many episodes. A million different named ants with their own powers, the crawwwwwling pace made it feel like just another shonen again
I find it interesting that so many people liked the ant arc. Having watched entry level shit as a teenager like Naruto, Bleach etc I really hated the character/power bloat, power levelling to win fights and shit like that. Fights that were 30 second zoom ins on someones face whilst they internal monologue about what move they need to do next etc.
My friends convinced me HxH wasn't like that, so I watched it and it was amazing. Fights were fast and interesting, story moved at a good pace, not too cliche, a small cast of characters, well written enough that you can just abandon the MC for a whole arc and it's fine
Then the Chimera ant arc happens, and whilst the Meruem story is interesting, the constant fricking fights that dragged on for so many episodes. A million different named ants with their own powers, the crawwwwwling pace made it feel like just another shonen again